The report, by consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton' title='Booz Allen Hamilton' class='tpstyle'>Booz Allen Hamilton, recommended that the board give more training to test center personnel and upgrade to more accurate scanning software among other recommendations, The New York Times (NYSE:NYT) reported Friday.

The board commissioned the report after an incident last October when more than 5,000 SAT tests were scored incorrectly.

Critics questioned the report's objectivity in its recommendations and accuracy in explaining the causes of the incorrect scoring, the Times said.

Robert Schaeffer, public education director for the group FairTest, told the newspaper that College Board report is "a 75-page red herring with a lot of tangential detail that avoids the fundamental questions about how the problems occurred."

"The only way we're going to get real answers is through the courts and legislative investigation," he said.

Board spokeswoman Chiara Coletti told the Times, however, "No other firm could have done a more thorough, thoughtful and timely analysis."